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ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for SIGKDD Innovation and Service Awards.

SIGKDD Innovation Award

One SIGKDD Innovation Award will be given to one individual or one group of collaborators who has made significant technical innovations in the field of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery that have been transferred to practice in significant ways, or that have significantly influenced direction of research and development in the field.

Previous SIGKDD Innovation Award winners were Rakesh Agrawal, Jerome Friedman, Heikki Mannila, and Jiawei Han.

SIGKDD Service Award

One SIGKDD Service Award will be given to one individual or one group who has performed significant service to the field, that include professional volunteer services in disseminating technical information to the field, education, research funding, etc.

Previous SIGKDD Services Award winners were Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ramasamy (Sam) Uthurusamy, Usama Fayyad, and Xindong Wu.

Nomination Process

Each nomination should be co-sponsored by at least 3 people. Email co-sponsorship is accepted. Nominations should include a 1-2 page statement to justify the nomination, and other supporting materials.

At most one award will be given each year in each category.

Nominations will be valid for a period of 3 years.

Deadline for nominations

Please send all nomination materials by May 20, 2005 to Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, gregory[at]kdnuggets.com.

The awards will be presented at ACM SIGKDD-2005 conference, Chicago, IL, August 21-24, 2005.

The Awards

If the winner is a group of people, the monetary award will be divided among them. However, each individual will receive a plaque.

Exclusion: People on the 2005 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee (below) or SIGKDD Chairman Won Kim are not eligible to be nominated.

ACM SIGKDD 2005 Awards Committee

• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets), Chair
• Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
• Christos Faloutsos (CMU)
• Jerome Friedman (Stanford)
• Robert Grossman (U. of Illinois, Chicago)
• Jiawei Han (U.Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• Xindong Wu (U. Vermont)
• Sam Uthurusamy (GM)